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Lesson 86 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide Bootcamp

Ben Willmore

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Lesson Info

86. Time-lapse

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Introduction To Adobe Photoshop

04:05
2

Bridge vs. Lightroom

06:39
3

Tour of Photoshop Interface

18:21
4

Overview of Bridge Workspace

07:42
5

Overview of Lightroom Workspace

11:21
6

Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents

08:19
7

How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:10
8

Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders

13:09
9

Developing Raw Images

30:33
10

Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs

09:12
11

How to Save Images

03:37
12

Using the Transform Tool

04:48
13

Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020

06:03
14

Selection Tools

05:55
15

Combining Selection Tools

07:37
16

Using Automated Selection Tools

17:34
17

Quick Mask Mode

05:07
18

Select Menu Essentials

21:28
19

Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

13:00
20

Align Active Layers

07:29
21

Creating a New Layer

06:15
22

Creating a Clipping Mask

03:02
23

Using Effects on Layers

11:24
24

Using Adjustment Layers

16:44
25

Using the Shape Tool

04:39
26

Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool

04:39
27

Masking Multiple Images Together

15:15
28

Using Layer Masks to Remove People

10:50
29

Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky

10:04
30

Adding Texture to Images

09:11
31

Layering to Create Realistic Depth

05:35
32

Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020

05:29
33

Optimizing Grayscale with Levels

10:59
34

Adjusting Levels with a Histogram

03:37
35

Understanding Curves

06:18
36

Editing an Image Using Curves

18:41
37

Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment

07:19
38

Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode

07:14
39

Editing with Blending Modes

08:04
40

Color Theory

05:59
41

Curves for Color

16:52
42

Hue and Saturation Adjustments

08:59
43

Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment

13:33
44

Match Colors Using Numbers

16:59
45

Adjusting Skin Tones

05:25
46

Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw

10:52
47

Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush

07:53
48

Retouching with the Clone Stamp

06:51
49

Retouching with the Healing Brush

04:34
50

Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools

13:07
51

Extending an Edge with Content Aware

03:42
52

Clone Between Documents

13:19
53

Crop Tool

10:07
54

Frame Tool

02:59
55

Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools

08:14
56

Paint Brush Tools

13:33
57

History Brush Tool

06:27
58

Eraser and Gradient Tools

03:06
59

Brush Flow and Opacity Settings

04:17
60

Blur and Shape Tools

11:06
61

Dissolve Mode

09:24
62

Multiply Mode

15:29
63

Screen Mode

14:08
64

Hard Light Mode

14:54
65

Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes

11:31
66

Smart Filters

11:32
67

High Pass Filter

13:40
68

Blur Filter

05:59
69

Filter Gallery

07:42
70

Adaptive Wide Angle Filter

04:43
71

Combing Filters and Features

04:45
72

Select and Mask

20:04
73

Manually Select and Mask

08:08
74

Creating a Clean Background

21:19
75

Changing the Background

13:34
76

Smart Object Overview

08:37
77

Nested Smart Objects

09:55
78

Scale and Warp Smart Objects

09:08
79

Replace Contents

06:55
80

Raw Smart Objects

10:20
81

Multiple Instances of a Smart Object

12:59
82

Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects

05:42
83

Panoramas

13:15
84

HDR

11:20
85

Focus Stacking

04:02
86

Time-lapse

11:18
87

Light Painting Composite

08:05
88

Remove Moire Patterns

06:11
89

Remove Similar Objects At Once

09:52
90

Remove Objects Across an Entire Image

05:46
91

Replace a Repeating Pattern

06:50
92

Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel

10:27
93

Remove an Object with a Complex Background

07:49
94

Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes

12:27
95

Warping

11:03
96

Liquify

14:02
97

Puppet Warp

12:52
98

Displacement Map

10:36
99

Polar Coordinates

07:19
100

Organize Your Layers

11:02
101

Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss

02:59
102

Layer Style: Knockout Deep

12:34
103

Blending Options: Blend if

13:18
104

Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image

06:27
105

Layer Comps

08:30
106

Black-Only Shadows

06:07
107

Create a Content Aware Fill Action

08:46
108

Create a Desaturate Edges Action

07:42
109

Create an Antique Color Action

13:52
110

Create a Contour Map Action

10:20
111

Faux Sunset Action

07:20
112

Photo Credit Action

05:54
113

Create Sharable Actions

07:31
114

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1

10:23
115

Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2

07:57
116

Image Compatibility with Lightroom

03:29
117

Scratch Disk Is Full

06:02
118

Preview Thumbnail

02:10

Lesson Info

Time-lapse

Now let's talk about time lapse. Here's a sequence of images that I captured in Africa. I actually sent my camera on the ground and I put a timer on the camera so we would take a picture every few seconds. And once it did that, it started capturing images and just happen to be that an elephant came into our camp in that elephant came right over near my camera, getting a little nervous by this time. And he's just eating grass and walking through camp. Well, I would like to combine these images together into a panorama, and so to do so. Come on, here's what we need to do. The first thing we need to do is we probably don't want to work with full size raw files because running them is video. My camera is 61 megapixels. That's a massive file. You don't need something that anywhere near that big for video. The second thing is, we need the numbering of these photos to be sequential. If there any gaps in the numbering like here, let's see, I have number 90 on the end. That jumps to 94 than 97 ...

than 00 They're not sequential. If we do this with a non sequential Siri's, it will assume that it should have been sequential and they'll be empty frames and it'll look really weird. So what I'm gonna do is select all I'm gonna then go to the tools menu. I'm gonna choose photo shop, and there's a choice called image Processor. Image processor is designed to scale images and save them in different file formats. And, um so we're going to use this with the image processor. I'm gonna tell it what save location I want to go to and for me. I'll put it on my desktop. Ah. Then I'm going to come in here and say resize to fit and I minds will make this eso it fits within the size of HD TV. That's 1920 by 10 80. I'm gonna keep the quality as high as it can go so we don't degrade the quality at all. And then I'm going to hit run that's gonna open each one of those images, scale it down and save them out as a J peg file, and it may take it a little while to do it. Once it's done doing that. The next thing we need to do is make sure we've dealt with the naming in that. The number on the end of each file is sequential. There are no gaps. Otherwise they'll be areas with empty frames, and we can do that again. And Bridge were going to do it by going to the tools menu and choosing batch rename take in just a moment to finish Now. I had a time. I would have adjusted these pictures. I would have selected all I would have gone into camera raw, chose, select all on camera. Move the sliders around until the images look good. Because our end result here will not be a raw file. And therefore we wouldn't get his high quality in adjustment. Uh, afterwards, then we would, if we did before, should be done in a minute here. I didn't count how many files were in there, so hopefully it doesn't take an hour for finish. Looks like it's done. Now I'm gonna return to Bridge. I'm gonna click on my desktop. In In my desktop is a folder called J Peg, and that's where it saved it. It will be called whatever file format you told it to use. I'm going to select all my typing command a go to the tools menu and choose batch rename with batch rename. I'm gonna tell it to rename it in the same folder in down here. I can create a formula for how you make a file name. I can hit the minus signs that are here to clear things out. And I'm just going to start with text and I just called image and then I'll hit this little plus sign and I'll tell it that I would like a sequence number and that means it's gonna number thes files. And I tell it, How many digits? I don't think I have more than 999 pictures in there, so three digits should be fine. Ah, but otherwise that'll be fine down here at the problem. It gives you a preview. There is an example of an existing file name. And here's what it's gonna be renamed. It's going to do it to a total of 86 files. I hit rename, and it only takes in a moment and suddenly all those files were renamed. But now we need to do something to get it to be a time lapse. And to do that, I go to photo shop, I go to the file menu and I choose open. And then I'm gonna point it at the folder that we were just in. And I'm going to select the very first file within the folder, then in this open dialogue. And this is just the normal open screen where I just went to the file menu and choose open. Once I've selected that first file down here is a check box called Image Sequence. And that's the key to making this work. Now when I choose open, it's not going to just open that first image. It's gonna open all of the images, and as long as the numbers Aaron sequence, then when I click open, it's just gonna ask me what my frame rate should be. This is going to determine how quickly this plays back. If I choose 30 frames per second, I could take the number of frames divided by 30 and that would tell me the number of seconds long. This would be so the lower than number, the longer my animation will be all do 24 frames per second as a starting point. Click OK, and it's already done to play it back. You go to the window menu and you're gonna find a choice called Timeline in. Down in the timeline is a play button right here and now we have our time lapse. If you want to save out that time lapse in a file format that is related to video. Ah, believe you could choose Let's see file export and spent a while since I've done it. So taking this moment right here, render video and then you see options related to video file formats. But the key to making that work is to ensure that the file names air in sequence, and if they're not, it's not gonna look good. Now there's something else we can do related to that, And that would be, ah, we can create looping animations and let me just see if I have fears of frame animation. Here's what I captured. Sun has already gone down its twilight. I found the outlines of some If you call him mountains, I can't think of what you calm hoodoos or something similar. And then I waited for traffic to come by. And whenever a car came by, I just hit the shutter button multiple times, and I captured these sequences. This was a while later that these cars came through, and I now want to turn that into an animation that will play those. So what I'm gonna do is select all of these by typing command A. And I'm gonna choose tools, photo shop load files into Photoshopped layers that's going to stack all these. It says it's busy if I hit. Yes, I bet you it's not busy every single time it tells me that it's busy. It never is if it ever truly is busy. What that means is back in photo shop, there's a dialogue box open like you're adjusting an image with levels, and you haven't clicked okay yet, but it will commonly complain but rarely actually have an issue. Now we're going to use that same window called timeline, so if you don't already have it on your screen, you go to the window menu, and that's where you can find the timeline. And there are two different kinds of timelines you can have, and if you go to the side menu over here. I think that's where we might be able to switch. You can have either a frame animation or a normal video animation. It's it's actually right here in the middle. There's a drop down so before where using a video timeline, which is when we had our time lapse. We want this set to frame animation, and then you want to click this button that says, Create frame animation. So now it thinks about your document is if it's an animation, there's only one frame, which it looks like our current one, and I'm going to go to the right side of the timeline. Click on the side menu and there's a choice. They're called make frames from layers, and that means just make a slide show of all our layers. So we show one at a time. So if I were to hit the play button, you can see the cars going by and doing all that stuff. But the problem is, the sky only gets bright for one of those frames. So what I want to do is I'm going to come in here and go to the side menu of the frames thing and select all the frames. So we're working on the mall, and I'm gonna turn on the eyeball for our bright sky so that it will be visible in every single one of those friends. So I made sure the frames were selected, and then I turned on the eyeball for that. I'm gonna hit play, and let's see what we have Now the problem is that that top layer obscures the view of all the layers that are underneath. So I'm gonna change the blending mode of it to, ah, choice called lighten. Lighten means only allow the areas here that are brighter than what's underneath to show up. So now let's see. Oh, I didn't have all my frame selected. So let's go to the side menu. If you want to change, that's gonna happen across all the frames. You gotta select all the frames first, then come up to this layer and said it to lighten if I did it when there was only one frame activites on Lee for that one frame worth of time. There we go. Now we got cars going by, and if you wanted to be, ah, no cars for a while hit Stop in at the very end of your animation. Just scroll to the very last frame. Click on it and there's a number underneath it. It's zero seconds. That's how long it's gonna pause at the end. I might set mine for one second. Now if I hit play the cars go by, but once against the end ital! Pause for a second before starting up again. Now, if you want to save this kind of file, this is a frame animation. You want to save this in the GIF file format? Usually I would go to file export and I'm used to using save for Web Ah, and you save it as a gift file. Then you can have these. This is how you make what they call them. My brain is thinking of panel Lodge, but that's not the case. Um, I can't think of the name, but when there's slight motion in a photo that just continuous like somebody's hair going in the wind

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Lessons 1 - 6 - Handbook 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Lessons 7 - 12 - Handbook 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Lessons 13 - 18 - Handbook 3: Making Selections
Lessons 19 - 24 - Handbook 4: Using Layers
Lessons 25 - 30 - Handbook 5: Using Layer Masks
Lessons 31 - 38 - Handbook 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Lessons 39 - 44 - Handbook 7: Color Theory
Lessons 45 - 51 - Handbook 8: Retouching Essentials
Lessons 52 - 59 - Handbook 9: Tools Panel
Lessons 60 - 64 - Handbook 10: Layer Blending Modes
Lessons 65 - 70 - Handbook 11: How to Use Filters
Lessons 71 - 74 - Handbook 12: Advanced Masks
Lessons 75 - 81 - Handbook 13: Using Smart Objects
Lessons 82 - 86 - Handbook 14: Photography for Photoshop
Lessons 87 - 93 - Handbook 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Lessons 94 - 98 - Handbook 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Lessons 99 - 105 - Handbook 17: Advanced Layers
Lessons 106 - 112 - Handbook 18: Actions
Lessons 113 - 117 - Handbook 19: Troubleshooting Issues
Practice Images 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Practice Images 2: How to Use Camera Raw
Practice Images 3: Making Selections
Practice Images 4: Using Layers
Practice Images 5: Using Layer Masks
Practice Images 6: Using Adjustment Layers
Practice Images 7: Color Theory
Practice Images 8: Retouching Essentials
Practice Images 9: Tools Panel
Practice Images 10: Layer Blending Modes
Practice Images 11: How to Use Filters
Practice Images 12: Advanced Masks
Practice Images 13: Using Smart Objects
Practice Images 14: Photography for Photoshop
Practice Images 15: Advanced Photo Retouching
Practice Images 16: Warp, Blend, Liquify
Practice Images 17: Advanced Layers
Practice Images 18: Actions
Practice Images 19: Troubleshooting Issues

Ratings and Reviews

Noel Ice
 

I am an avid reader of photoshop books, and an avid watcher of photoshop tutorials. I have attended (internet) several hundred of presentations. In the course of this endeavor, I have found my own favorite photoshop websites and instructors. Creative Live is probably the bargain out there as well as among the top three internet course sites. I have to say with great enthusiasm that the best Photoshop instructor is Ben Willmore. There are many great ones, but truly, he is the best I have come across, and, as indicated above, I have watched literally 100s of tutorials on Photoshop. I have seen all of Ben's courses, I think, and among them, this one is the best by far, and that is saying a lot, because that makes this course the best course on Photoshop to be found anywhere. I am going back and watching it twice. Not only is it comprehensive, but Ben is so familiar with his subject that he is able to explain it like no other. This is crème de la crème of Photoshop classes. I have been wanting to write this review for some time because I have been so thoroughly impressed with everything about this class!

ford smith
 

Highly recommended if you want to take your Photoshop skills to the next level. Ben Willmore is clear, concise, and professional. He also has a good speaking voice that is not distracting but also keeps you engaged. Lastly, I would recommend that as you become more advanced, increasing the speed of the video (one of the options given on the menu)...especially if you've gone through the course once before and maybe want to watch it again. The double speed is very efficient as you become more advanced in Photoshop. Thanks for the help Ben!

a Creativelive Student
 

Wow. I cannot communicate the value of this course!! The true value in this course is how the instructor identifies workflows you'll need before you'll ever realize it, repeats important information without it becoming annoying, and explains the "why" behind the techniques so well that even if you forget the exact method, you can figure it out via the principles learned. Excellent value, excellent material, excellent instructor!!!

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